Goa Carnival 2016 to have disparate international elements

The famous Goa Carnival to be held February next will present a vivid ensemble of global elements ranging from Cape Town in South Africa, Liverpool England and many more.
"In Liverpool as well as in South Africa, there are a lot of individual performances. We are hoping to bring here as many as 30 unique costumes from there and some elements like that of the Goa floats highlighting social issues can be taken up in carnivals there," said Giles Agis, Executive Director of Brouhaha International based in Liverpool at a press conference here today.
The carnival is likely to be held in February next year, typically for three days and nights.

The event is characterized by lively processions, floats, the strumming of guitars, graceful dances and non-stop festivity.
Brouhaha International and Arts Organisation based in Liverpool, United Kingdom alongside its partners namely the Goa Tourism Development Corporation and the Cape Town Carnival, South Africa, will deliver an element that takes a bit from each of the town's carnivals and see what will emerge.
Agis said he wanted to incorporate a lot of the elements of the Cape Town as well as Liverpool Carnival celebrations and introduce them to Goa and vice versa.

Funded by the European Commission's Executive Agency under its "Capacity Building in the Field of Youth", the project 'Destination Carnival Cultural Tourism' will try to develop young people's artistic engagement and deliver experience which includes moving young people towards professional competences.

"The project aims at exploring models of best practice in carnival arts engagement to gain new competences and experiences of large-scale event management as well as to engage young people in the delivery of large-scale cultural events besides as well as to focus on capacity.
"The exchange will see all partner groups collaborate on new performance work as well as run workshops for wider groups of young people engaging in Goa carnival arts engagement activities," Agis said.
He said since the origin and cultural nuances of each carnival are different, the fusion of these elements will ensure that each of us become better.

"This is the first such intercontinental collaboration in the field of carnival arts," Agis said.
Also present on the occasion was the Director of Goa Tourism Development Corporation Nikhil Desai and Angela Mac Pherson with her team of artists from Cape Town.
The carnival celebrations in each of the towns is held at a different time of the year and hence makes it possible for artists to shuffle between towns to development.